Comments by "Steve Watson" (@stevewatson6839) on "Drachinifel" channel.

@arnulfotapicjr8301 Ehrhem, Her Majesty's Ships are shes, its the Kraut lot that are hes.
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@EdAtoZ Curtis SC Seahawk, performance on a par with a Wildcat. Not too shabby considering the floats
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@Bananaskin101 The RN wouldn't have. One of the G variant battlecruisers had 6 18 inch guns as opposed to the 9 of the N3 battleship. They would have classified the Iowas the same. The final G3 design had 9 16" guns, similar speed, displacement and dimensions as, but much heavier armour than, the Iowas. The 'Weird Sisters' were also armoured to the then cruiser standard and were classed as large light cruisers for that reason.
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@hungryhedgehog4201 The pic is labelled elsewhere as 10" gun practice on the USS Seatle and Seattle (Former USS Washington) pictured in November 1916 taking part in firing drills as flagship of the Destroyer Force. Another site has the pic labelled as specifically range finding practice. I presume the contraption is for calibrating the sights and making sure they are "on". The two arms secured to the barrels seem to be carrying mirrors reflecting back on to the sighting-hoods for the individual guns.
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@muhammadadiff3414 The Iowa by a long chalk. Superior guns, superior shells, superior fire-control, superior engine and boiler tech, superior speed by at least 3 knots, superior armour and arrangement of that armour. The Iowa could simply stand off at long range and demolish Bismark in the same way as USS Washington did for Kirishima. I doubt Jerry would land a glove.
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@leodesalis5915 Force Z succumbed to land based naval torpedo bombers; Kido Butai was running for home at this point. Force Z was allegdely supposed to have had the carrier HMS Indomitable in company, but she had grounded in the Caribbean working up. The squadron had the legs to refuse action or cross the T of such as Fuso, Ise, or Nagato. Kongos were just as unlikely to survive a gun action with RN capital ships as the of the US battleships that nixed them in the Solomons. Any encounter with an IJN carrier or carriers would have been with second line ships with second line aircraft. The chances of a first clas IJN carrier surviving a close encounter with battleships wasn't very high. The third eleven? You must be joking. What caught Tom Philips out was the range of the land based bombers, just as the range of all firstline IJA/IJA caught everyone out early doors in the Far East/Pacific. He discounted a threat he should have been aware of, but everyone was doing that. If Indomitable had been in company the IJN 'planes would likely have been seriously embarassed: their protection was zero and their defensive armament pathetic. Like the Battle of France it was a complacent satisfaction with our own strength and strengths and a disregard of those of the enemy armed forces, who in this case had been in action for five years at this point, that did us in.
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Psshh! Not good enough rocket propelled ten ton 'Grand Slam' from 40,000 ft with 'Fritz X' guidance package: if we are going OTT we should go so OTT no can see our arses for the smoke!
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